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Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-ramen-twists-the-other-way dept.

angry tapir writes "The problems at Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear plant have had an unexpected impact on the country's ability to keep time: a transmitter that sends the national time signal to many thousands of clocks and watches has been forced offline making the timepieces a little less reliable than usual."

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  1. Re:Worst headline ever. by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really doubt it. If anything, the near-perfect organisation of Japan has saved countless lives.

    With tens of thousands of suicides a year, I think not. Another example of a modern society self-driven to neurosis.
    The WHO even disputes Japan's definition of suicide that makes the reported numbers an estimated three times lower.